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"Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." (2 Thess 2:15)Fri, 20 May 2016 06:41:14 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.6Comment on Murphy, Job, and I: Reflections on the first week of Great Lent by Rdr Nicholashttp://paradosis.net/2016/03/murphy-job-and-i-reflections-on-the-first-week-of-great-lent/#comment-27
Fri, 20 May 2016 06:41:14 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=43#comment-27Thank you.
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Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:27:06 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=43#comment-12I couldn’t refrain from commenting. Well written!
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Tue, 29 Mar 2016 06:49:14 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-10I’ll have to take a look at this and get back to you. Unfortunately, today I didn’t have enough brain power left.

Regardless, the main point, that the Nicene formula does not require the date to be after Passover, stands. If Gregory did change something in the Paschalion, that wasn’t it.

Thanks for sharing.

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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:57:35 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-9Yes, I would think so generally. There is a 30-something day window in which the feast can take place. I believe that the Julian version of that window must shift by 1 day against the Gregorian calendar every 128 years. However, since it just moves the earliest and latest dates, it will take many of those 128-year cycles before the overlap goes away.

Note I’m just deducing this answer from my understanding of the facts. I don’t really know for sure. But note that given the formula, the earliest Easter/Pascha could ever be is March 22, which is 13 days earlier Gregorian than Julian, a gap that has been increasing, so we can see right there that the possible dates have indeed been shifting. However, most years the date falls somewhere in the middle of the possible range, so it’s not as noticeable. It would be interesting to create a scatter plot of both Easter dates each year since the Gregorian calendar was invented.

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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:21:26 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-8So if the Julian calendar is inaccurate and currently 13 days different than the Gregorian, will the dates for Pascha and Easter drift further apart in the future?
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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:25:45 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-7The key pages are linked here: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/Calendar&Tables_1928.pdf . To compute the date of Easter, one follows the instructions in the paragraph entitled, “TO FIND THE DATE OF EASTER DAY.” First, calculate the Golden Number for the year. With the Golden Number, go back a few pages to the section of the Calendar between 20 March and 18 April. The date the Golden Number lines up with is the date of the Paschal Full Moon for that year.

So, following the instructions, we add one to 2016, then divide by 19. The remainder is 3, which is the Golden Number for 2016. Go to the section of the Calendar between 20 March and 18 April, and find that the 3 in the first column lines up with 23 March, the computed date of the full moon.

(The Dominical or Sunday letter calculation simply allows someone without access to a calendar to determine the dates Sunday falls on.)

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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:11:17 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-6It’s true as far as I know. 🙂

I don’t have access to the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Perhaps you can post a link to the pages in question scanned in so we can have a look.

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Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:04:54 +0000http://paradosis.net/?p=63#comment-5I wonder whether this statement is accurate: “Despite a popular but misinformed narrative within Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church never changed the Computus of the First Ecumenical Council.” I’m doubtful because, when I use the tables in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (Anglican) to compute the date of the ecclesiastical full moon immediately following 21 March 2016, I get 23 March – which happens to be the date of the actual full moon. The next ecclesiastical full moon, the one following Julian 21 March 2016, would then be 22 April. The Sunday following that full moon is 24 April. So, using this Western computation, Orthodox Easter should fall on 24 April this year. But, in fact, it’s 1 May.

As far as I know, the Anglicans always celebrate Easter on the same date as the Catholic Church, so I suppose the Anglican computational scheme is the same as the Catholic. But the Orthodox appear to use a different method for computing the date of the full moon.